Hi everyone,

This is probably my first post on the lowyat forum. Since, I am a hardcore Fujitsu fan, I am looking to buy a new Fujitsu laptop, where my budget is 7k and below.

My purposes are basically for high-end research and simulations which utilize high end database manipulation, programming, querying and softwares like MATLAB, Visual Basic, .NET etc and so. So basically my requirements are like high processing speed, large cache, high FSB speed, high RAM (can be upgraded later also), 7200rpm HD-DISK (for faster transfer), and a graphic card, light and slim laptop, 14.1"-15.4" screen (later will connect it to my large LCD flat panel).

I am not really a hard-core gamer, but sometimes I will play the usual online games, or common games such as counter strike, dota just for liesure. I have read a lot of reviews regarding other Fujitsu models. But there are three models I am interested in, for which there is no mention:

A6210
E8420
S6520

Has anyone used these models before? or has them. Please let me know about their performance. All my requirements meet the S6520, but I am only worried about the graphics card. Has anyone used this laptop with the INTEL GMA 4500MHD graphics controller? How is it for games? I heard the drivers only support Vista? I use XP for my development work in Visual Basic.

The other two models E8420 and A6210 are a bit heavy and have big screens also processor and cache are low, which do not meet my requirements enough. Please let me know your experiences. All help is appreciated.

regards,
awyeah

Fujitsu is all about quality.

I am not sure about this card, "S3 chrome 430 ULP". But the S6520 I found in lowyat uses the Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics card. I heard on a forum, Sims 3 can run fine on this laptop with this graphics. Not sure how good graphics Sims 3 requires now lol.

Here are the benchmarks for the three models I posted above.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphi...List.844.0.html


A6210 - ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 - Ranking: 99
E8420 - NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS - Ranking: 94
S6520 - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD - Ranking: 115

Just read normal reviews posted by websites about all these three laptops to get more information. Actually if you see there is not much of a difference in the rankings, for the S6520 if you see the specs, however the 3DMark06 is quite lower than the Radeon and GeForce. I also read a review that the A6210 and E8420 are also not recommended as gaming laptops, since those cards are not also that good enough for high-end graphics.

Keep in mind that the Intel GMA 4500MHD card shares memory with the RAM also maximum upto 384MB.

What do you mean by option for a dedicated graphics card? I'm sorry I don't know what it means. Means we can put an additional graphics card or what? Actually I am thinking to get the S6520 by this Monday. Will go and use it for a while, if all is okay I will buy it or my second option is the E8420. The A6210 is out of the question for me now, since I don't want to pay extra RM 1000 for a Blu-ray drive I don't want to use.

Ya, most of the Fujitsu Laptops are using this GPU I checked, Intel GMA 4500MHD. I will check with the Fujitsu store here lowyat in Malaysia, maybe they can replace it with the S3 card. Oh, ur not in Malaysia, where are you then? I was looking at the S7220 they don't seem to have that model here in Malaysia also. Even the "N series" laptops also. But I reckon, the N series will be quite pricey.

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Added on February 3, 2009, 8:49 amWeird, I cannot find any reviews on this GPU "Chrome 430 ULP". Some links I found, only a few for this GPU, guess no one has really heard about it:
http://www.s3graphics.com/en/products/note.../chrome_430ulp/

Picture of the Chrome 430 ULP GPU
http://www.flickr.com/photos/viagallery/2884608854/

Read more about the Chrome 4xx GPUs:
http://hothardware.com/News/S3-Graphics-An...me-400-ULP-GPU/

This is regarding the Chrome 430 GT (looks impressive)
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/249105-3...ome-uuhhhh-yeah

Comparison of 6250 LifeBook GPU and with Sony Vaio SR13G:
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2143903

Hope this helps.


This post has been edited by awyeah: Feb 3 2009, 08:49 AM